Noticed that mintty starts non-login bash with "Win+R mintty Enter".

Andrey Repin anrdaemon@yandex.ru
Thu Jan 7 07:34:53 GMT 2021


Greetings, Thomas Wolff!

> Am 04.01.2021 um 23:33 schrieb Oleksandr Gavenko via Cygwin:
>> I interact with Cygwin via mintty launched as "Win+R mintty Enter".
>>
>> ...
>> After looking into docs I got that mintty should be launched with a parameter "-".
>>
>> Probably it was always that way.
> Yes, but it might be appropriate to apply special handling for this case 
> and imply login mode if started via Win+R.
> What do others think?

That would be overly complicated and least predictable.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 15:53:33

Sorry for my terrible english...



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